A research project on the environmental factors causing relapse tendencies with addictive illness has earned Dr Magdalene Schlesiger an ERC Starting Grant, through which the European Research Council (ERC) equips projects with high-level funding. Based in the Department of Clinical Neurobiology at Heidelberg University Hospital, she will investigate how drug-associated contexts influence behaviour and what role certain neuronal circuits play in addiction. The ERC is making approximately 1.5 million euros available to finance her research for a period of five years.
Dr Schlesiger’s ERC project is entitled "How do drug-associated contexts drive behaviour? The role of entorhinal circuitry in addiction" (DrugsAndMemory). ...
